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A student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad died by suicide allegedly due to mental stress, reported news agency IANS. The 21-year-old was found hanging in her hostel room on Monday night.

Hailing from Odisha, the deceased was identified as Mamitha Nayak and she was in M Tech first year. Her body was found hanging by her classmates and a suicide note was also discovered in her room. The note stated that she was taking extreme step because of mental stress.

Her classmates found her hanging from the ceiling fan and alerted the hostel authorities and they in turn informed Sangareddy rural police. Her body was later shifted for autopsy.

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Recently, there has been a spike in such cases. This is the second suicide by an IIT Hyderabad student in less than a month. D Karthik (21) died by suicide by drowning in the sea at Visakhapatnam as he was depressed over his backlogs.

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Another student of B Tech (Mechanical) second year, he had left the campus on July 17. His body was recovered on Visakhapatnam beach on July 25. The student, who hailed from Miryalguda in Nalgonda district, was upset over being unable to clear the backlogs in examinations.

As many as four students of IIT Hyderabad have died by suicide in a year.

In September 2022, 22-year-old Megha Kapur, a resident of Rajasthan, had jumped to death from a lodge in Sangareddy town, near IIT Hyderabad campus.

She had completed B Tech from IIT-H three months ago and was staying in a lodge. In August,G. Rahul, a native of Nandyal in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh and a second-year M Tech student, hanged himself in his hostel room.

(With inputs from IANS)